For elderly women, one of the things the women's movement in Quebec and across Canada has been requesting for a long time is recognition of the time they've spent taking care of children. We have some measures in the QPP and the Canada Pension Plan that do that, but one of the things we could think about doing is giving an extra supplement in old age security. Women are not going to be able to catch up even with measures specifically recognizing children, but there could be a universal measure, according to the number of children a woman raised, and that would be a supplement to the old age security.
On March 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.